Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISI, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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